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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here-thank you for all the information. I guess not being a swimmer myself I didn't really understand that all the swim team practicing would not help them without outside lessons as well. I guess they were just practicing every day the wrong way. The team has a lot of coaches but also a lot of kids. My younger child could care less but my older one is competitive and would be frustrated not seeing her time get faster after the meets. 
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It took us two seasons to figure things out. I also had a frustrated almost 10 year old who was ready to quit last summer. We invested in a real winter swim program last year and saw a huge difference this summer. He just needed someone to teach him the technique, which doesn't happen during summer swim practice. The good winter swim programs are expensive, but you can almost guarantee that all the top summer ladder kids in the NVSL pools are doing Machine, AAC, York, etc. during the winter. At our pool, we also noticed that the coaches spent more time with the A meet kids and pretty much assumed the B meet kids were just there for fun so they got almost no coaching. When my son started to make A meet times this summer, he was suddenly getting more instruction during practice. That fact still annoys me because all families pay the same fees for the summer swim team, but it is the reality at most pools. The coaches focus on winning the A meets, not what happens at B meets.[/quote]

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